Kate Savage's Reviews > The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Pure Being makes for bad writing.

In terms of content: Tolle has useful reminders about living within the present and within the body. Seriously, as snarky as I may be, I'll be using these tactics on a daily basis. But to move from there to the irrefutable and universal Truth for All is embarrassing.

When Tolle escapes from his realm of competence, we suddenly enter a world where death isn't real (a convenient conclusion for a mortal), and alterity can be ignored since we're all One. He begins a promising discussion of the importance of the body, condemning the body-deniers, but his "inner body" bullshit is just a more fundamental denial of the body. His ideas are thick with gender essentialism and a lack of respect for people with different experiences and ways of being in the world (AKA, one white man tells everyone in the world what their REAL problem is, and sells a book that will fix it).

I know, I know, I'm just not enlightened yet.